U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana)
The U.S. Senate voted on Trump‘s impeachment, and Louisiana’s U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R) fell in favor of impeaching Trump and was subsequently denounced by the state’s Republican Party en masse.
With the support of some Republican lawmakers, the U.S. Senate voted Tuesday (Feb. 9) to move forward with a second impeachment trial against former President Trump (Donald Trump).
Bill Cassidy, the sixth Republican senator to fall, joined all Democratic senators and the five Republican senators who had previously fallen, in arguing that Trump’s impeachment was constitutional. The Senate ultimately agreed to move forward with the impeachment of Trump by a vote of 56 in favor to 44 against.
The Louisiana Republican Committee then issued an official statement after the vote, condemning Capitol’s actions.
The statement said, “The Louisiana Republican Party is deeply disappointed by Senator Cassidy’s vote on the constitutionality of the impeachment trial currently underway against former President and now-citizen Trump.
“We believe that an impeachment trial against an individual citizen is not only an unconstitutional act, but an attack on the foundations of American democracy that will have far-reaching and unforeseen consequences for our republic,” the statement reads.
We also want to remind all Americans that former President Trump is innocent of politically motivated false charges brought against him by a kangaroo court (meaning unfair trial) presided over by an openly hostile political opponent,” the statement continued. In the short Time that Democrats have controlled the federal government, justice has fallen so fast.
Meanwhile, the Louisiana Republican Committee also praised the state’s other Republican U.S. senator, John Kennedy, in a statement Tuesday for “making the right decision” and commended the senator for his “unwavering opposition” to impeaching former President Trump.
Cassidy was the only Republican senator to switch his vote to support impeachment, after joining Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and most Republicans in January to vote for a motion by Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to dismiss the trial.
In an interview with CNN after the vote, Cassidy said the House impeachment representatives had a “very good opening statement” and made “very good arguments. He also criticized Trump’s impeachment defense lawyers for being ‘disorganized.
The remaining five Republican senators who went down were Susan Collin of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. Toomey (R).
Convicting former President Trump requires getting at least 67 Senate votes, which means no more than 33 Republicans can vote against it. Tuesday’s 44 votes against have far exceeded the number of votes needed for impeachment, and the likelihood of a successful conviction against Trump remains low.
But Republican lawmakers who fall back will face strong public pressure. Tara Palmeri, a senior reporter for Politico, said in a Jan. 29 interview on MSNBC that former President Trump has actually gained more popularity than he has lost political clout since leaving office; the assumptions of American folk are very different from those of the Washington, D.C., establishment and many in the mainstream media.
The earliest support for the impeachment of Trump’s House Republicans three figures Wyoming Congressman Liz Cheney (Liz Cheney) by the collective voice of his constituency, where the state Republican Committee, its re-election support rate was once down to 13%.
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